Volume 77 (2024), Edition 4

The construction industry plays a key role in providing infrastructure for digitalisation and the energy transition, creating sufficient living space as well as the energy efficiency renovation of existing buildings. Even if the construction...

This article focuses on processes of digital transformation within the construction industry, of which little research has been carried out within the field of the sociology of work. Relying on the regulation approach of production models, an actor-...

Three qualitative empirical studies were conducted in 2017, 2019 and 2021 to analyse the behavioural patterns and adjustment strategies of firms and employees to the introduction and increase of the minimum wage in Germany. This article takes up...

Despite the 5.7 % rise in nominal wages, real wages in the European Union fell by a further 0.6 % in 2023. Following the drop of 4.2 % in 2022, this means another year of losses for workers. The reason for this is that inflation has remained...

Collective bargaining coverage and the representation by works and staff councils have gradually but steadily declined in recent years. In 2023, around 44 % of employees in western Germany and around 31 % of employees in eastern Germany worked...

In the wake of the Covid 19 pandemic, works councils and staff councils established new digital work and meeting formats, which posed challenges for those concerned, especially in view of a partly uncertain legal situation. Within the framework of a...